Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass

Wishing Frederick Douglass — America’s great author, thinker, abolitionist, vice presidential running mate to the first female presidential candidate, suffragist, advocate of equal rights for all and American slave — a happy birthday.

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”